VeLePa

Central Pame verbal inflection in a quantitative perspective

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4580892
AutoresBorja Herce (0000-0002-9493-6656, University of Zurich, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume34
Fascículo3
Páginas281-319
Data de publicação2024-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMorphology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1871-5621 • E-ISSN: 1871-5656
EditoraSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s11525-024-09426-x
OpenAlexW4399332774
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas28

This paper reports on the compilation and quantitative analysis of VeLePa, an inflected lexicon containing paradigms of 216 Central Pame verbs and a total of 12528 elicited words, in phonological form, supplied with cell and lexeme frequency information. The language (Otomanguean) is of interest due to both its extraordinary morphological complexity, as well as due to the organization of the inflection into a four-fold concurrent classification system where prefixes, stems, tone-stress, and suffixes all display inflection classes and irregularities which are only partially predictable from each other. A quantitative analysis of morphological predictability as per the Paradigm Cell Filling Problem is conducted for every layer, and for the whole word, as well as of the uncertainties language users face to learn or predict the morphosyntactic values or lexical meaning of a verb form from its morphology

Inflection · Perspective (graphical · Computer Science · Language and cultural evolution · Linguistics and language evolution · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence